The Fifth Mountain, Paulo Coelho

In the 9th century BC, God ordered the prophet Elijah to leave Israel. His journey led him to Zarephath, a small Phoenician city. There, in the city besieged by the Assyrians, Elijah would lose everything, especially the woman he loved, and would be caught in a whirlwind of dramatic events that would lead him to confront God. "Why does He who created the world prefer to use tragedy to write the book of destiny?" Elijah asked. "You don't know what you're saying," the angel retorted. "There is no tragedy, there is only the inevitable. Everything has its reason for being: it is up to you to know how to distinguish what is fleeting from what is definitive." "What is fleeting?" "The inevitable." "And what is definitive?" "The lessons of the inevitable." Based on a fragment of the Bible (1 Kings, 17 and 2 Kings, 2), Paulo Coelho develops the themes that, since The Alchemist, have been the strength of his work: the meaning that each person must give to their life, the perseverance with which one must follow their Personal Legend, the necessity of hope, and of understanding that tragedy breaking into an existence is not a punishment, but a challenge for the person who must overcome it...

Anne Carrière

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